Earlier this year, two major financial institutions appointed women to serve on their Board of Directors based on their cybersecurity expertise. Linda Mills was elected to the board of American Insurance Group in July of 2015, and was also added to the board’s technology committee.1 Before AIG, Mills spent more than a decade at security…
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Securing the Glass House: Apple, Encryption, and the Fight Over Backdoors (Part II)
The conversation the previous blog post in this series discussed shows no signs of abating, although recent news suggests evolution with respect to the government’s position on backdoor access. Within the past three and a half weeks, it has come to light that the Obama administration, as suggested by James Comey, the current director of…
Securing the Glass House: Apple, Encryption, and the Fight Over Backdoors (Part I)
This summer, as the world eagerly awaited the latest i-offerings from Cupertino, the city associated with the latest in cutting-edge and fashionable tech from computer behemoth Apple Inc., James Comey, the current director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, published a list of concerns online regarding recent evolutions in encryption.1 According to Director Comey, the…
Growing Children’s Privacy Concerns for Tech Startups
In recent years, applications and online technology have increasingly been targeted at children. As a result of this child-focused technology, concerns have been raised about the privacy of the children using these products. Many of the producers of these technologies are small startups and therefore the discussion has remained rather minimal. However recently, a new…